[1918, June, not earlier than 6]

Most Esteemed Vladimir Ilyich!

I beg you, order the Centrobronia to load the Baku detachment tomorrow without fail, otherwise I shall be powerless to do anything for their immediate departure.

Ter-Gabrielyan

Why did you not turn to me earlier? Do you have the telephone? What is Centrobroniya? Its telephone number?

Centrobroniya is an organization which has at its disposal all armored automobiles. There is no telephone. Address: Znamenka, No. 5, mansion of Dolgorukov. My telephone: 5.29.00. — Room 436.

1 The correspondence with S. M. Ter-Gabrielyan was occasioned by a delay in sending his detachment to Baku. On 5 June 1918 this was reported at a session of the Council of People's Commissars, and on 6 June there was signed a directive to the Moscow office of the State Bank to issue money to Ter-Gabrielyan for financing his trip (see also the present collection, p. 83).